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Australian education

9 May 2024

  • A composite image featuring treasurer Jim Chalmers

    Australian federal budget 2024: what we know so far and what to expect

    Treasurer Jim Chalmers has promised more cost-of-living relief in his 14 May budget as well as spending for students and health

8 May 2024

  • Students gather at Gordon West Primary school in Sydney, Wednesday, April 2, 2008. (AAP Image/Paul Miller) NO ARCHIVING

    ‘Can it really be this bad?’: racism in schools shocks South Australia’s children’s tsar

  • Police are investigating alleged attacks on a pro-Palestine camp at Monash University, pictured

    Monash University: police investigate alleged attack on pro-Palestine camp

7 May 2024

  • Calum Neish

    Why have we been excluded? The students left out of Labor’s promised placement payments

  • Treasurer Tim Pallas holding budget papers.

    Victorian state budget 2024: airport train delayed and sick leave for casuals scrapped in bid to rein in debt

  • Screenshot from Google maps of Yarra Valley Grammar School.

    Melbourne private school students expelled over ‘cruel’ spreadsheet rating female classmates

  • Education minister Jason Clare during question time

    School funding reform to be tied to better outcomes for children with disability, Jason Clare says

6 May 2024

  • Pro-Palestine protest at the University of Sydney

    Amid reports Jewish students in Sydney ‘afraid to go to class’ minister urged to condemn university encampments

    Jason Clare says the community, including politicians, must ‘lower the temperature’
  • Composite image showing australian money overlaid on a chart with lines for indexation and repayments

    The Crunch
    Help and Hecs debt calculator: see how the changes to indexation could affect you

    This interactive calculator estimates how much you might receive as a credit once the Australian government’s changes to education debt are legislated
  • Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan speaks to media

    Students suspended at Melbourne private school over ‘disgraceful’ spreadsheet rating female classmates

    Victorian premier Jacinta Allan said behaviour at Yarra Valley grammar was misogynistic, and disrespect towards women had to stop

5 May 2024

  • Nurses walking down a hospital corridor

    ‘Placement poverty’ to be tackled in Labor budget with new payments for student teachers and nurses

  • Alicia Cook with her son Emerson

    Full Story
    Why are Australian schools failing children with disabilities? – Full Story podcast

  • Education minister Jason Clare

    Australia news live
    Jason Clare hints at more budget relief for students – as it happened

  • File photo of the University of NSW campus in Sydney, Australia

    ‘It’s very unfair’: Australia’s visa crackdown is disrupting international students and hitting university finances

4 May 2024

  • Minister for Education Jason Clare

    Labor to wipe $3bn from Hecs and Help debts through indexation changes

    Measure to ensure student debts can’t outpace wage growth by retrospectively capping indexation rate for loans
  • Participants at the Nutbush dance world record attempt at the Big Red Bash 2021

    The rural network
    Australia and the Nutbush: the quest for the origin of a cultural phenomenon goes on

    The line dance has been taught in Australian schools for almost 50 years – but where did it start? Now researchers have narrowed down their search
  • Teen students seen from behind sitting at desks with one sitting in a wheelchair

    The classroom divide
    Here are six ways to make Australian education more inclusive

    Catherine Smith
    This is not an easy fix, but our schools should be safe places where students grow and learn together

3 May 2024

  • School students walking

    The classroom divide
    To the parents of school-aged children with disabilities: it’s not your fault

    Anonymous
    My son spent his high school years isolated in the library or watching YouTube videos. Am I angry? Absolutely. Do I blame his teachers? I don’t

2 May 2024

  • Year 12 students take their HSC exams at Gymea Technology High

    The classroom divide
    Funding for Australian school students with disabilities ‘woefully inadequate’, principals say

  • Students and protesters sit on the lawn of the University of Melbourne with pro-Palestinian and anti-war signage on display

    ‘A vital moment’: Australian pro-Palestine campus protesters vow to stay on as tensions brew

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